How to Pitch a Script

The first thing I learned is that a pitch is not a performance. "It's a conversation to discover if there's a match between what the listener is looking for and what you have to offer" (http://www.scriptologist.com/Magazine/Tips/Pitch/pitch.html). When discussing your pitch, make sure you describe the genre in which your story will be and some background information about the story. When describing your pitch, you want to use articulate language. Make sure that you sound like you know what you're talking about, because the people you're pitching to will appreciate if you just get down to business and already have in mind what message you're trying to get across without wasting too much of their time. Also, before anything meeting has happened, re read your script. Make sure you have everything in there you want, and everything out that you don't because there could be changes you want to make.

In things to avoid, don't oversell your pitch. If you're discussing it too heavily or have too much information, it could possibly over flood your points and have the producers not even want to consider it. For example, don't discuss every scene word for word with every character and action that happens. Instead, discuss important scenes with primarily your main characters. Another thing you want to avoid is disagreeing with the people you're pitching your script to. Even if you disagree with their ideas, take it with constructive criticism, rather than arguing, which'll probably get and your script no where. Instead, use those ideas and possibly retransform your script into something you and the producers agree upon.